[WikiEN-l] External links to image boards with images of a child engaged in sexually explicit acts.

[Jimmy Wales]

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> Children involved in sexually explicit acts is illegal in all the ways
> that come to mind. Most picture gallery links are non-encyclopedic
> spam. I don't see why we would need new policies to cover this.

I agree about not needing new policies, although I do think that some of
the default assumptions may need to be moved, with respect to images
which have been uploaded.  I think a move of default assumptions would
go a long way toward nuking a ton of fair use images that we would
prefer not to have in en.wikipedia.

But the one thing that I hope can healthily come out of this discussion
is a general feeling of empowerment by admins to actually *enforce*
policy in the face of trolling by pedohiles and the like, or the sorts
of people who think that merely by camping out and pushing POV on an
article, they should have more of a say of what goes into it than admins.

--Jimbo



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